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project where i grew the mostI feel like I grew the most during the free project. When I started this project I was lost for a long time. Then I thought back to an earlier post that I did on the blog, with the person who made the cloth spiders. It was pretty cool, after all. I thought about how the shape of a light bulb looked like the thorax of a spider, and how to stick legs onto that. I would have done many more, with many different light bulbs (that would've been awesome), but time was limited by the time I finally stopped struggling over what I would make. This project turned out very fruitful for what I imagined I could do with items, and what I could do with free stuff. successful techniqueThe technique I used to make these pieces was to make two pinch pots, score'n'slip, and then seal the pinch pots together to make what was a lemon shape for the first bird and a pear shape for the second bird. Then I slowly pieced on more clay to make bumps for the neck and the tail (they kind of looked like fruits at this point), and just to make everything fit better in general. The head was finished first for both of them; however since the brown one was standing, it never quite balanced due to the finicky business of trying to make the weight equal. More work was done on the wings throughout the whole procedure - bits and scraps here and there. Then the tails came on, and finishing touches on the wings. The first picture had absolutely amazing wings, but I didn't take a picture of it at the time. My regrets to that. This technique of making two pinch pots, slapping them together, then piecing on all the little bits is a fantastic technique because you get to build from the base up, and it makes everything easier. Beneficial sketchbook artThis was for illustration friday. The word was "Noise". I wasn't quite sure what to do at first, but it had to be something noisy. What's noisy? Elephants are noisy. That's what I took and ran with. I drew a little elephant and gave it funky, noisy colors to make it interesting. I picked this because this was one of the few ones that were colored, and maybe one of the ones that I spent the most time on. It might not be drawn the best, but it's certainly the most appealing to the eyes, and that's why I chose it. do overIf I could pick any one project to do over, it would definitely be my pit firing piece. While re-doing this, I'm not sure how differently I'd do it - I would ask Mrs. Sudkamp how to prevent air pockets from getting into the piece (I've never had a project shatter before..) but do most of it the same. The gigantic air bubble in the center of the piece, obviously, did not shatter, but the head and the tail and everything else on the piece flew off. It was looking amazing and super epic until one fateful day, when I was shown what the deal was. Kablooey! I would only re-do this to fix the shattering, and to smooth out some of the features that maybe weren't as correct as they could have been. successful projectThe theme for this project was "animal head". The class was shown an awesome video about this lady who made really cool animal sculptures - but not all of hers were just heads. She had some full-body creatures, too. It was amazing.
I found that, when creating these animal heads, the best technique was to make a pinch pot semicircle and then add everything on. Sure, they aren't very symmetrical in some aspects, but they look amazing from other angles. This technique is successful because you start off with the very basic, basic structure of a skull. Then you could take it whatever way, but I added some clay onto the pinch pot for a muzzle as my first step, and shaped the head - added all the pieces on that I'd need for a basic head. Then came the eyes and ears, and finally the muzzle (the little rounded parts where the whiskers typically are, I mean). I cut off the eyes of the squirrel (left in the picture) three times. I cut off the eyes on the rabbit twice or thrice as well. They still didn't really line up in the end! That's fine, though - they look amazing.
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